The guard watched the four men walk into the lobby
of the building
that
held the Pheonix Foundation.

They were an odd-looking bunch. One man was young
and rather
handsome in
a well-tailored suit and another was an older man with silver hair,
but
it
was the other two that really got the guards attention. It wasn't
because of
their looks which were strange enough, it was because the large, black
man
was in the middle of throttleing the tall, thin man.

"You crazy fool, I ain't gonna tell you again, there
ain't no
dog!"he
was shouting.

"HA-NI-BAL"the tall man choked out.

"Let him go B.A."the silver-haired man said calmly,
not bothering
to
look up.

The big man, B.A., released his hold and the other
man fell to his
knees
coughing. The young man in the suit rushed over to help him up.

"Now, what have I told you about sneaking Billy
into the van? You
know
how B.A. feels about invisible animals."

"I know, but Billy's been lonely. I couldn't leave
him at the V.A..
Last
time he chewed up my favorite pair of invisible slippers."

The big man just growled.

They fell silent as they approached the guards desk.

"May I help you gentlemen?"he asked hesitantly.

The tall man with the leather jacket stepped forward.

"Yes, could you tell Pete Thornton that Murdock
is here to see
him?"

"Certainly."he passed the message on to Thornton's
secretary.
"It'll be
a few minutes, you can wait over there."he pointed to some chairs.

"No thanks, we'll stand."the silver-haired man said.

************************

Macguyver and Pete were in Pete's office discussing
Mac's most
recently
completed mission.

"... They were very pleased that they were able
to help you take
down
the drug lord. He won't be going anywhere for a long time."Pete said.

Then someone knocked at the door.

"Come in."Pete called.

A young slender woman entered.

"What is it Denise?"he asked.

"There's a man here to see you. He says his name
is Murdock."

"Murdoc, are you sure?"Pete asked with a touch of
fear in his
voice.

"Yes sir, that's what he said."

"Call security, seal off the building, surround
him."he commanded.

She rushed off.

"What could he be up to?"Pete wondered out loud.

"Why don't we go find out?"

They ran and got into the elevator.

***********************

The team was starting to get nervous.

"What's taking so long?"Face whined,"I've got a
date tonight."

"Hey, did anybody else notice that they just locked
us in?"Hanibal
asked
calmly.

Suddenly, more than twenty armed guards rushed out.

"Freeze! Nobody move! We've got you surrounded!"one
guard yelled.

"We can see that."Hanibal replied raising his hands,
the other
three did
the same.

"Murdock, I thought this guy was your friend."Face
said.

"I thought so too."Murdock cried out.

Just then Pete and Macguyver pushed their way through
to the front.

Pete stood stiil as he looked at the four captured
men. His gaze
locked
on Murdock and he lowered his gun.

"Allright everybody, false alarm. Back to your posts."he
let out a
sigh
of relief.

The four men lowered their hands.

"Murdock, H.M. Murdock. It's good to see you."he
smiled.

"You got a real funny way of showing it, muchacho."

"Oh, sorry about that, I thought you were someone
else."

"Well as you can see, I'm still me. I've tried being
other people
and it
just didn't work out."Murdock smied.

"So where have you been? I haven't seen you since
you left the
thunderbirds."

"I went to 'Nam."he shrugged.

"Yes, but the Vietnam war has been over for years,
what have you
done
since then?"

"Well, I live in a real nice place, it's mostly
other vets there,
and I
have my own room. I've been living there since the war."he glanced
at
his
friends to keep them quiet.

"Oh, so what brings you here?"

"Well, my friends and I are sort of...uh... detectives,
and we're
working on this case. We heard you had an operative working on the
same
case, so we decided it would be mutually beneficial to pool our
resources."

"You're still reading the dictionary I see."Pete
joked (Murdock
could
use very technical language when he wanted to, he was, afterall a
genius)
"What case?"